First time in history an invading army will be defeated by a battalion of food trucks

I deplore modern innovations (stealing body parts from a medical school) we must RETVRN to tradition (stealing body parts for a medical school)

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?" GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

We used to be a proper country

Life in Baltimore:

Breathless reporting across the industry on unconfirmed reports that Kirk's killer may have once breathed same air particles expelled by a trans person, meanwhile no interest in ironclad proof that yet another school shooter was a Nazi.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.” This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:

Tom Clancy's Grundrisse

A shadow of what it was in Russell's days, alas

It's incredible to see which specific people's rights being violated finally pushes the NYT to actually call out the administration's blatant authoritarianism. Not our precious boy, John Bolton!

I have watched this approximately 500 times since yesterday

Paywall link: archive.md/4PI9T

Lol

This is less than NOTHING. "we will unmask ICE????????" THAT's IT.

Happy birthday to saxophonist Bill Clinton who turns 79 on Aug 19 🎂 #jazzsky #jazzsoloist #jazzmusician #happybirthday https://www.allsolos.com/soloist/213/bill-clinton

Fight for your right (to monetize the rot)

It's the freakin weekend

If Terry Gross was the origin point of my political rebirth I would simply make up a more impressive story

Count Leo Tolstoy, after a visit to Catonsville, MD

The soul of some of Ry Cooder's best stuff too

Bought this hat in a thrift store and two people have already tried to run me over??

(Rick Steves voice) The ham egg and cheese bialy available in the Northeast Regional club car is a marvelous tribute to the syncretic food cultures of the Mid-Atlantic

Zionism: A People Reborn - New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/zionism-peop...

No paywall link: archive.is/II64O

It's 2002. Al Qaeda is definitely going to attack the state fairgrounds and the army national guard depot in East Cackalacky so if you see something say something

honestly this is how you know Zohran is a real New Yorker, he’s not even Jewish and the American right is still somehow antisemitic towards him

"A lot going on here"

WOIMS WEDNESDAY

(through gritted teeth, sweating like I'm having a heart attack)

Creating a Cool Room for Extreme Heat Events "Given the reality of global climate change and the increasing likelihood of extreme heat events, designing and retrofitting homes for resistance to extreme heat and power outages should be considered in all climates. Extending the "hours of safety" […]

(Shuddering) Found a guy

This was quite literally how BPD officers justified their actions involving Freddie Gray. I know because I’ve been talking about this for 10 years.

brutal 1-2 punch for trans people, especially trans kids, today. thinking of all of you and sending you love, we will never abandon you.

I really really wish this video started with him wearing the ballcap and then taking it off, revealing his sideburns are exactly ballcap height

Hey is this water getting warm

Old heads will remember how insanely mad people got when he wrote about the looted Gap jeans in the fire truck buried by the WTC collapse

Everybody's a critic

Found the worst book ever to exist

ahahahahaha the boers got Fyre Festivaled

It looks like there may not have been a single #weather balloon launch in Alaska this morning. Alaska is a critical region for this data because what happens there often dictates what happens in Canada and CONUS in the coming days. #akwx

We got to the Men with Guns stage very quickly

Damn #RIP "Sly Stone, the leader of the band Sly and the Family Stone, one of the most influential bands in the development of funk, soul, R&B, rock and psychedelic music, has died. He was 82." people.com/sly-stone-de...

LA and NYC have the country's longest running rivalry over who can have the shittier mayor

Image stolen from the other site, and apparently on display at UATX